Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Awake—out of your ordinary state of drunken stupor, to realize the cutting off from you of your favorite drink. Even the drunkards (from a Hebrew root, "any strong drink") shall be forced to "howl," though usually laughing in the midst of the greatest national calamities, so palpably and universally shall the calamity affect all.
wine . . . new wine—"New" or "fresh wine," in Hebrew, is the unfermented, and therefore unintoxicating, sweet juice extracted by pressure from grapes or other fruit, as pomegranates (Song of Solomon 8:2). "Wine" is the produce of the grape alone, and is intoxicating (see on Joel 1:10).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Joel 1:5:
Isaiah 24:11
Joel 1:10
1 Corinthians 15:34
Revelation 9:12
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